It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

quote by George Wald
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Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not.

quote by Edward Teller
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Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists.

quote by David Hilbert
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Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to make a mess of chemistry when they invade it.

quote by Frederick Soddy
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Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.

classic quote by Albert Einstein
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All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

quote by Ernest Rutherford
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Medical physics is an applied area of physics.

quote by John Cameron
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Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.

quote by Eugene Paul Wigner
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When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page.

Bill Clinton in announcement of Next Generation Internet initiative, 1996
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As a physicist, I can state that none of the 18 physicists who signed the Statement works in this field; nor to my knowledge has ever published a paper on this subject.

quote by David Douglass
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Medical physicists work in cooperation with doctors. A few medical physicists devote their time to research and teaching. A few get involved with administrative duties.

quote by John Cameron
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A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

quote by George Wald
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A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.

quote by Niels Bohr
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There's no fun in physics, but a good deal of physics in fun.

American proverbs
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That attitude does not exist so much today, but in those days there was a very sharp distinction between basic physics and applied physics. Columbia did not deal with applied physics.

quote by Gordon Gould
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I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer.

quote by Philip Emeagwali
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The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.

quote by Clifford Geertz
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If the experimental physicist has already done a great deal of work in this field, nevertheless the theoretical physicist has still hardly begun to evaluate the experimental material which may lead him to conclusions about the structure of the atom.

quote by Johannes Stark
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No Other Choice

Einstein is a physicist, unparallel.
His word of physics is not disputable.
With faith in him we take it to be true.
It might be disproved; yet no other choice.

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Kosmic Artist

to a particle physicist
the sub-atomic level

is an easel
sprayed

by some crazy artist
whose name

is written in every
infinitesimal detail

so not even a physicist
can fail to recognize

the Intelligence
always presumed

to be energy.
not that

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poem by Doug Bentley
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